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TUESDAY 24 JUNE St. John, Baptist 1969 175th day - 190 days to come

Felicia called. Harvey Gardner of MECHANICS ILLUSTRATED will be at her of- fice tomorrow at 3:00, instead of 2:30. Sid Blazer (see 6/13) will be showing her some things next Monday at 3. He'd like to meet me.

Drew up a game record form for Felicia - 11" x 17". Didn't run prints yet.

Called Phil and made date to go there Friday to play TEMPO and ODD OR EVEN.

(cont. from 6/25) [6/25]

BALI-BUTTONS (P.B.S. - Palo Alto, Cal.). Four plastic pieces of 4 colors and shapes and 16 pegs in 4 x 4 array. Object to arrange them so that no shape or color is repeated in a row or column (or diganol?) [diagonal].

Called Claude in the evening to thank him again for the games. He was at Oggi and Ted Cohen has left. The other partner says it was because Ted didn't want them to do games (tho Claude thought that Ted was much sharper on games). The remaining partner wants to study his situation and then have Claude in for a long talk. Claude want offered to have me in on it but I said for him to establish himself first.

(cont. from 6/26) [6/26] next player starts a new formation. When a player has seven or more pieces and it is his turn to start a forma- tion, he may start with as many as he wishes as long as he leaves himself at least 5. First to get rid of all of his pieces wins. (I told Jerry that this could be another classic like BLOCKHEAD.) (Jerry said that Saalfield has sold something over 2,000,000 copies of Blockhead to date and he thinks they should have sold a lot more. SIR HINKEL-FINN-DUSTER:- A children's game. There are 4 sets of 6 cards each with members of 4 families, "Hinkel-Finn-duster" and others equally rediculous. Players in turn ask another player for a specific member of a specific family, but must say "Please may I - - - ." If they get it, they must say "Thank you." If a player fails to be polite he must throw his cards in the air and the others grab for them (they are large & thick). The player must put on special glasses marked "Taboo" and no one may speak to him. If they do he passes the glasses to them. (Jerry says it is hilarious.) Object is (I suppose) to collect one family and to be the last one not taboo. (cont. on 6/23)